Women, rites, and ritual objects in premodern Japan / / edited by Karen M. Gerhart.

• Superior document: Brill's Japanese Studies in Library ; Volume 63
• TeilnehmendeR: Gerhart, Karen M., 1949-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese studies library ; Volume 63.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (435 pagaes).

Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan , edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of rituals featuring women, in which significant attention is paid to objects produced for and utilized in these rites as a lens through which larger cultural concerns, such as gender...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright Page
• Prologue
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Rituals Related to the Household and Childbirth
• Women and “Moving House” Rituals in Mid-Heian Japan
• Devising the Esoteric Rituals for Women: Fertility and the Demon Mother in the Gushi nintai sanshō himitsu hōshū by Anna Andreeva
• Taira no Tokushi’s Birth of Emperor Antoku by Naoko Gunji
• Women and Buddhist Rituals and Icons
• A Female Deity as the Focus of a Buddhist Ritual: Kichijō Keka at Hōryūji by Chari Pradel
• The Relic and the Jewel: An Eleventh-Century Miniature Bronze Pagoda to Hold the Bones of a Young Queen by Hank Glassman
• Connecting Kannon to Women Through Print by Sherry Fowler
• Buddhist Women and Death Memorials
• Commemorating Life and Death: The Memorial Culture Surrounding the Rinzai Zen Nun Mugai Nyodai by Patricia Fister
• Of Surplices and Certificates: Tracing Mugai Nyodai’s Kesa by Monica Bethe
• Female Patronage, Portraits, and Rituals
• Retired Empress and Buddhist Patron: Higashisanjō-in Donates a Set of Icon Curtains in the Illustrated Legends of Ishiyamadera Handscroll by Elizabeth Morrissey
• Life After Death: The Intersection of Patron and Subject in the Portrait of Jōkō-in by Elizabeth Self
• Back Matter
• Index.